“an international band of anarchitects who battle to save our streets, towns and cities from the evils of urban planners, architects,multinationals and other hoodlums”.

The Space Hijackers are one of the groups that inspired Tom Pope to do his work. They are a group from the UK, who ‘fight to save public spaces’. Their purpose is to change how spaces are perceived by the public and to take away some of the power from the people who built or own the space the reason behind this is because they think public spaces are becoming to politicised. They try to change the public’s perception by performing unexpected non violent events for example: they organised a ‘party’ at the London underground once the trains had left as form of protesting against Mayor Boris’ new law to ban drinking on public transports.

The Space hijacker’s work links in with one of our project themes challenge because they challenge the authorities by pushing boundaries in an expressive non violent way as well as challenging the public to change their perception of public spaces, this is also closely linked to what we were doing in St.Malo as we were testing what is and isn’t accepted in society.